The top image depict the roman attack on Cartagena in 209 BC and the lower show the family of Cariolanus begging him not to attack Rome. The engravings were published in volume I of the 1729 work "Recueil d'Estampes d'après les plus beaux Tableaux et d'après les plus beaux Desseins qui sont en France dans le Cabinet du Roy". Engraved by Nicolas Tardieu after an original by Jules Romain.